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Gender Curiosity Lasts Five Minutes

Study Finds Gender Curiosity Lasts Five Minutes, Being Extremely Attractive Somehow Takes the Rest of the Day Researchers Accidentally Discover Humanity Is Less Obsessed With Gender Than With Looking Fantastic While Ordering Coffee A thought experiment asking people whether they would temporarily swap bodies with an extremely attractive member of the opposite sex has produced a major breakthrough in human psychology: people are deeply interested in understanding another gender until approximately the…

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Workers Control The Means Of Production

Communists Spent A Century Demanding The Workers Control The Means Of Production. Now They Have AI, And Head Office Has Raised It With HR By Staff Writer For 150 years the promise rang out from Petrograd to the picket line at Cowley: the workers shall control the means of production. Marx wrote it. Lenin had people shot over it. The bloke from the Socialist Workers Party still shouts it outside…

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The Brussels Café

The Brussels Café: Where the Government Writes the Menu, Regulates the Stove, and Then Investigates Why Dinner Costs More Europe’s agricultural policy finally achieves what decades of Michelin inspectors never could: a restaurant where the customer, the chef, and the vegetables are all technically under investigation The European agricultural model increasingly resembles a restaurant where the government writes the menu, limits the ingredients, regulates the stove, taxes the chef, and…

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Netanyahu’s New York Reception

Mamdani Warns Netanyahu About New York Reception, Israel Replies That Surviving October 7 and Iranian Terror Makes a Brooklyn Protest Seem Like Brunch NYC mayor discovers municipal foreign policy has one tiny limitation: foreign countries do not have to obey it Mayor Zohran Mamdani has warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can expect protests when he arrives in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, apparently transforming City Hall…

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Royal Lodge Hits Rental Market

Royal Lodge Hits Rental Market, Rightmove Adds New Filter: “Can Sustain Minor European Monarchy” Thirty-room Windsor mansion seeks tenant with excellent references, security clearance and enough disposable income to regard a £5 million repair estimate as a spot of decorating Britain’s property market has finally produced a rental opportunity for people who consider a six-bedroom house dangerously cramped, after Royal Lodge reportedly prepares to become available following the end of…

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Britain and France Promise to Defend Freedom of Navigation

Britain and France Promise to Defend Freedom of Navigation Just as Soon as Iran’s Pirates Promise Not to Shoot Back Royal Navy Prepared to Confront Iranian Pirates, Contingent on Pirates Providing Written Assurance Confrontation Won’t Occur LONDON | Britain and France have reaffirmed their unwavering commitment to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, provided freedom can be defended somewhere quiet, preferably during office hours, and without anyone firing…

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Royal Family Confirms Historic Feud Began When…

Royal Family Confirms Historic Feud Began When Meghan Borrowed Kate’s Lip Gloss Without First Consulting Parliament Britain’s constitutional order reportedly survived wars, abdications and Prince Andrew, but could not withstand one American woman putting royal lip gloss on her finger. What Started the Royal Family Fight? Investigators Trace Historic Breakdown to a Small Tube Found Inside Kate’s Handbag LONDON — After years of memoirs, interviews, documentaries, palace briefings and televised…

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Burnham Persuades Trump to Buy Half of Manchester

Trump Persuaded to Buy Half of Manchester, but Burnham Will Keep the Soccer Clubs New Prime Minister Offers US President City-Centre Property, Two Tram Lines and Complimentary Access to the Northern Powerhouse Brochure By Lowri Griffiths | Manchester Here’s the satire, with Manchester treated as a distressed luxury asset and its football clubs hidden beneath a constitutional tea towel. ⚽🏗️🇺🇸 Burnham Persuades Trump to Purchase Half of Manchester MANCHESTER, ENGLAND…

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International Community Demands Israel Stop Entrenching Gaza

International Community Demands Israel Stop Entrenching Gaza, Schedules Discussion Behind Several Security Barriers of Its Own Diplomats condemn Israel’s enormous earthen boundary from a fortified conference centre protected by railings, turnstiles, two metal detectors and a commissionaire named Nigel LONDON — The international community, or at least the portion of it that could get a visa appointment in time, has demanded that Israel reconsider building a miles-long earthen barrier inside…

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Harry Allowed to Meet King

Harry Allowed to Meet King After Agreeing Not to Turn Conversation Into Six-Part Documentary Palace officials confiscate one memoir manuscript, three lapel microphones and a producer disguised as a ceremonial footman LONDON — Prince Harry has reportedly been permitted to meet King Charles after passing an unusually thorough palace security inspection and signing a legally binding promise not to transform the private conversation into a six-part documentary, a twelve-episode podcast or a…